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inflection point

November 6, 2024

The thing about being in an inflection point is you won’t see it unless you’re truly looking ahead — or so far back that you can’t see the pre...

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a thousand authors

March 3, 2024

While writing about the 1979 movie Alien and what it can teach us about extractive capitalism, I noted that movies can be more nuanced, profound and comprehensi...

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show me

October 16, 2021

i’ll believe all the pretty talk about diversity and inclusion when a pilot episode ends with The Cover Girl’s Show Me. either our history matters o...

art/ideas/movies & television/play/technology/work

desperately seeking sounds

April 7, 2021

After nearly two years of working on an audio drama, I’ve come to wonder if I should have spent more time thinking about the audio part and less on the dr...

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more money in trolling

February 13, 2021

I made this video for Instagram [in 2019] just over two years ago. It should probably be hosted here as well. Transcript: “what happens when there’s...

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Queens English

February 8, 2021

From my February 7, 2021 newsletter. Reprinted in full with a few grammatical corrections. “You don’t sound Cuban.” “Where’s your ...

ideas/movies & television

shifts

June 3, 2020

It hit me first thing this morning, upon waking into our quarantine & curfew, that a character is interesting when they shift from one point of view to anot...

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Junk

June 26, 2019

I grew up when America was first discussing “junk food”: ready-to-eat foods that were filling, and tasty, but neither nutritious nor healthy. I feel like we’ve ...

ideas/movies & television/technology

A Long View on YouTube

June 26, 2019

A long view on YouTube is that it’s a platform for artists – outsider mostly, many of whom make art about their own lives – and educators. The “how&...

ideas/latin america/movies & television/people

that migrant life

February 17, 2019

When you’re a migrant, be it a refugee or an immigrant, you’re forever an outsider. You’re no longer fully of the culture you left and yo...

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First families

January 9, 2019

I slept fitfully and repeatedly dreamed of the migrant family, as enshrined by Christianity. La familia sagrada. The holy family versus Herod, the king. The fam...

movies & television

Los Angeles

September 6, 2018

Rene Russo Get Shorty (1995), Nightcrawler (2014)

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War Games, Fail-Safe, Dr. Strangelove

April 7, 2018

In 1998, there were two movies about a natural catastrophe: Armageddon & Deep Impact. In 2006, there were two movies about magicians living outside the real...

art/movies & television/power

Underground

February 28, 2018

Magicians show you things you don’t know you’re seeing. Prosecutors tell you things you don’t realize you’re hearing. Movies use a similar ploy: they make you f...

latin america/movies & television/people/power

the normal

February 23, 2018

I just scanned the most recent issue of “14 y medio”, a banned / clandestine news digest from Cuba. You won’t be surprised that the stories are about struggle. ...

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Invasions

November 30, 2017

One of the charms of Star Wars was the contrast of robots and serfs, space ships and lords. High technology and feudalism. If you follow US politics (don’t, it’...

movies & television

glowing with possibility

June 15, 2017

While reading the script for Pulp Fiction, I came across a reference to Repo Man which reminded me of a scene from the recent Atlanta. Apparently, this visual t...

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Motherhood and the workplace

February 4, 2017

The movie Arrival (2016) and the movie Alien (1979) are contrasting takes on motherhood and women in the workplace. In Arrival, a successful professional woman ...

art/movies & television/power

The industry of memory

December 15, 2016

On The Sympathizer: Charlie Rose: You talk about the industry of memory. What’s that? Viet Thanh Nguyen: Well, we like to think that our memories are all ...

latin america/movies & television

Characters Matter

December 4, 2016

If you’re a young Hispanic interested in a career in acting, seeing a Hispanic actor on the screen could validate your professional interest. If you’...

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